PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

To prevent litter from ending up in our waterways, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful urges Pennsylvania residents to participate in Pick Up Pennsylvania , in support of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. Read more here ] That litter could potentially end up in our oceans.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. In a place that is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020), mitigation of warming agents is crucial.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To prevent litter from ending up in our waterways, Keep Pennsylvania Beautifu l urges Pennsylvania residents to participate in the Fall Pick Up Pennsylvania , in support of the Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup. That litter could potentially end up in our oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As another year comes to a close, I am reflecting on the incredible progress Ocean Conservancy has made in 2023 towards a healthy, resilient ocean future. For better or worse, this is the nature of ocean conservation work—sometimes we hit roadblocks, but it’s a reminder of why this work is so critically important.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Candidate in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Every minute, one garbage truck worth of plastic is dumped into our ocean. Between plastics and the health of our oceans? Guest Post by Mariel Price 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Why is that a problem? Well, plastics were built to last.

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Acoel

AUGUST 22, 2022

Of special note was the enactment in 2020 of legislation to address environmental justice through the permitting process for potentially polluting facilities that are to be located in “overburdened communities.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Resource Links: -- Attorney General Thornburgh’s Address to the Oceans ‘88 Conference on October 31, 1988 -- Gov. In 1995 he became Secretary of Environmental Protection in Pennsylvania. He died in 2020. Photos: Gov. Dick Thornburgh and James M. 16 James M.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the 13 schools, businesses and community organization winners of the 2021 Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence. In 2020, the project provided workforce development and safe, socially distant outdoor volunteer opportunities for the community.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

This effluent then travels approximately a half mile, through groundwater, to the Pacific Ocean. In 2012, environmental groups brought a Clean Water Act citizen suit against Maui, claiming that Maui was “discharging a pollutant to navigable waters” without the permit required by the Clean Water Act. 22250 (Apr.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research. The White House Council on Environmental Quality receives $65 million for environmental and climate data collection. A similar bill passed the Senate in 2020 but did not advance in the House of Representatives.

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This quote came to mind as we at Ocean Conservancy launched our latest report, Recommendations for Recycled Content: Requirements for Plastic Goods and Packaging. After all, this was not the first time that Ocean Conservancy has looked at the issue of recycled content. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 30, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water improvements in small and disadvantaged communities. State of the Climate in 2020. Heat in the mid-level of the oceans was a record high. And 2020 was one of the three warmest years since recordkeeping began in the late 1800s. By the Numbers. $25 News Briefs.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Catherine Flowers, a clean water advocate raised in Lowndes County who won a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2020, is vice chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Environmental Protection Agency outlined a plan to stem the flow of trash and untreated sewage from Mexico that foul the Tijuana River and Pacific Ocean.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

YE360 also reports that countries are reconsidering their current dam proposals, and advocating for parts of the Mekong and its watersheds to become designated UNESCO heritage sites, which would grant further environmental protections. Last September, more than 50,000 acres of forest in east-central Brazil were destroyed.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers demanding the project’s federal permit be revoked due to environmental justice, wetlands destruction and pollution concerns. The company owned a steel mill that discharged toxic chemicals into the ocean, devastating more than a hundred miles of coastline in four central provinces of Vietnam. 48,000.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite’s science instrument payload sits in a clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory during assembly. Having eyes in the sky, either on airplanes or spacecraft, is transforming environmental monitoring and management. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A watchdog agency says the EPA and Coast Guard should study the environmental effects of chemical dispersants used to cleanup oil spills in oceans. Percent : Decline, from 2019 to 2020, in the amount of water withdrawn from rivers, lakes, and oceans by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking two.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. To date, Koch Industries has been named in only one, filed by the state of Minnesota in June 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

Only 23 percent of the world’s large rivers (more than 620 miles in length) flow uninterrupted into the ocean. Two-thirds of respondents told the Pew Research Center in 2020 that the federal government is doing too little to protect the water quality of lakes, rivers and streams. More than half of the nation’s $5.6

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. May 1, 2020). Circuit Said EPA Decision to Expand Partial Vacatur of HFC Prohibition Required Notice and Comment. In a split decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the U.S. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency surveyed more than 49,000 lakes across the country and found that 30 percent contained toxins produced by the blooms. Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In 2009, the U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 4) The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) oversees the administration of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No. 1:21-cv-11390 (D.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Farm associations assert that because the price of phosphorus fertilizer rose from $480 a ton in December 2020 to about $826 a ton in November 2021, crop farmers are using less. . The most recent violation was issued in November 2020 for spreading manure within 24 hours of a forecasted heavy rainfall. Six months later the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Roughly half of the survey respondents at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now say they have a more effective workplace than they did two years before, for example. It lost 12 percent of its workforce between 2016 and 2020. Only 5 percent said so in our 2018 survey.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals directed the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of chlorpyrifos in instances where it harms workers and children. The Arctic Circle saw record-high temperatures in 2020, NOAA report finds – CBS News. This decision comes after the 9 th U.S. OCTO: A panel discussion on Sept.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

On April 15, 2021, federal defendants, defendant-intervenors, and environmental groups filed a stipulation for dismissal of appeals of a district court’s November 2020 decision finding that the U.S. The federal defendants, the States of Wyoming and Utah, and several trade groups appealed the district court’s November 2020 decision.

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

Forest Service , the Department of Agriculture , the Department of Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency this week regarding the agencies’ Fiscal Year 2023 budget requests. The Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies is releasing a new report, “Cross-Cutting Theme for U.S. Executive Branch. NOAA – U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a joint motion to dismiss appeals of a November 2020 order vacating U.S. The court also rejected the Town’s argument that the project was not consistent with current health, environmental protection, and resource use and development policies in Massachusetts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

By railing against what he calls a “radical climate change movement” and suing the federal government to protect corporate polluters. In 2015, when he took office as AG after stints in the Texas Legislature, he sued the Environmental Protection Agency for strengthening a standard for ground-level ozone, better known as smog.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 in response to a petition filed by environmental groups. 8 and 16.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

Meanwhile, in the background, a coalition of conservative states, in concert with the fossil fuel industry, recently presented oral arguments to the Supreme Court asking the justices to choke the powers of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate global warming gases.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The declaration commits parties to the convention to “ensure the development, adoption and implementation of an effective post 2020 global biodiversity framework. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. between FY 2009 and 2020. EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. Lawmakers give the Environmental Protection Agency a 3.5% The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 The National Park Service gets a 4.5%

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for the Environmental Protection Agency – House Appropriations Committee – April 21. Beaudreau is a former Obama administration official who served as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and chief of staff to former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. International. 29 & 30).

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. The Senate confirmed Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water. This includes a $2.11

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